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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 2h

One thing I’ve realised in the last few years is that there’s no moral value in struggling. Not struggle generally and definitely not when cooking as a disabled person.

I recently started keeping commercial garlic butter in the fridge. I’d once have scoffed at it but it’s a game changer!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2h

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3h

Any excuse to post the best tweet ever.
Variations of this catchphrase - in our worst french accents - “put an egg on it and now it is my wife” are now a staple part of my domestic routine.

Tweet from November @postoctoberist dated 18 Feb 2016
“FRANCE: we're fancy
WORLD: ok
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch
WORLD:
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife”

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 2h

What a good idea to use moulds to save your hands.

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my, @catvincent.bsky.social has just made a great culinary discovery. Dulce de leche heated up with a splash of brandy = the wickedest toffee sauce imaginable.

I make the dulce de leche in the instant pot using this recipe. It freezes well.

www.pressurecookrecipes.com/instant-pot-...

Instant Pot Dulce De Leche - No Jar or Can Method! | Amy+ Jacky

Creamy, silky smooth, deeply caramelized dangerous indulgence. 2-ingredient super easy to make. Perfect DIY Christmas gifts for family, friends, teachers...

www.pressurecookrecipes.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

my children regularly point out Cybertrucks on the street to me by going "boo, Cybertruck" so I can assure you that neither women nor children like the vehicle

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 9h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 11h

In the mid-1970s, Sweden sold North Korea 1000 Volvos. North Korea has never paid for them, making this "the biggest car theft in human history".

The Swedish government continues to send twice-yearly invoices to Pyongyang for £200,000,000.

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 5h

A story in three parts

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 3h

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 3h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 6h

big boat stuck!!

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.

Photo of the unfortunate vessel, suspiciously close to the shore and even more suspiciously not moving...

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Joezer the Joezerian @joeblivion.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all need to see this Bilbo and Gandalf from the Portuguese version of The Hobbit. Illustrated by António Quadros

A whimsical and charming illustration of Bilbo meeting Gandalf outside of Bag End

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 7h

I feel building on any wetlands is an intrinsically bad idea. The clue is in the name. See also ‘flood plain’, ‘bog’ and ‘swamp’.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 8h

And now the power company wants to destroy without mitigation then somehow reestablish another acre of protected wetlands because there's just no other possible way to get Google the power lines they need to operate cuz Google lied in its initially approved permit applications that it didn't need em

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

The Instagram account Saint featured me. The first slide says: "Derek Guy - Dieworkwear. Derek Guy is a menswear writer who has written for The New York Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. He also runs a menswear blog called Die, Workwear"

One of the slides showing my favorite products. It's it's a big bag of Hagen pigeon food. The food is fortified with the vitamins and nutrients pigeons need.

Instagram user writes: "Why tf do i need pigeon food for my outfit." I replied: "this is what i can afford to eat after spending all my money on clothes ::sad face::"

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 8h

Andy Serkis has titled his forthcoming memoir "My Pressures" which puts him streets ahead of the competition for "dad joke of the year" if nothing else. Wonderful.

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 22h

The irony of the Telegraph *grousing* (cough) about something "ruining the Highlands".

Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 3d

Today's Telegraph sends a mixed message: the article says wind turbines are "ruining" the countryside, but also ends with a quote stressing "climate change remains the greatest threat to these landscapes," and the need for renewables.

💷 Ads by #TaylorsOfHarrogate, #EE, #Waitrose and #BupaUK.

Telegraph article with a headline that reads: Creep of the wind farms 'destroying the Highlands'.

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 10h

There were some good things about it but it somehow didn’t work at all. I thought it never quite gelled.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 1d

If you tried to come up with a slogan as opposite as possible from "No taxation without representation," it would be hard to get one better than this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Dan Entwistle @garciansmith.bsky.social · 21h

There's many reasons transphobes are the way they are, but one of them is that they have a very narrow, specific and exclusionary view of the world and so, naturally, explicit racism is either a next natural step or has always been there (scratch a TERF, find a racist)

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

a skull full of soup.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesth.... 13h
Teaser trailer for 'AMADEUS' starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Graham Linehan @Glinner 7h
How would you like to see Amadeus again, except this time Mozart is black?
Me neither! Yet here it is!

Clara @Americana Mama79 6h
That guy is black?

Graham Linehan @Glinner 6h
Apparently not but the point rrrremains!

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Eileen @eileenart.bsky.social · 21h

I think most of us would be overjoyed if there were studies showing that SARS2 is mild and the risks are actually low. None of us like living like this! It's a logistical nightmare trying to safely access healthcare, and the more people you live with, the more challenging it is to avoid infection.

han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 21h

I just think that if you are going to state definitively that something is not a risk, then you should be able to readily cite at least ONE study that wasn't later retracted as false. or you should have to read ten of the newest papers on how covid fucks you up. vibes will not save you!!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

"C.M.O.T. Dibbler liked to describe himself as a merchant adventurer; everyone else liked to describe him as an itinerant pedlar whose money-making schemes were always let down by some small but vital flaw, such as trying to sell things he didn’t own or which didn’t work or, sometimes, didn’t even exist."

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 1d

I maintain, Daniel Craig's delivery of "the Nazi child masturbating in the bathroom" is the best line read of the century.

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 1d

Every time the horrible young Republicans group chat stuff is mentioned, I think of Jacob Thrombey. (I should really rewatch Knives Out. It's even a good autumn movie.)

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1d

A particular delusion of the liberal gentry, sadly influential even at this late hour, is that table manners somehow preclude someone from truly being a fascist, or increase the likelihood of their redemption. They do not.

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Shetland News @shetnews.co.uk · 1d

Shaetlan has finally been recognised as a language in its own right.
The recognition comes after the local language was given its own ISO code by SIL Global, the organisation that handles the international Ethnologue database has been tasked with the handling of international language ISO codes.

Shaetlan receives full recognition as a language

SHAETLAN has finally been recognised as a language in its own right. The recognition comes after the local language was given its own ISO code by SIL Global,...

shet.news

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

We have to penalize blatant lying, particularly by public figures. We’ve slid
into a post-truth world and nothing but sheer cultural gruntwork is going to get us out.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that time that techbros and major corporations told us jpgs of terrible monkey art were going to change the world, people were like "Nah pal, I'm good", and within just a few years it all fell apart spectacularly? That was rad. Let's do that again.

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